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Good film, romantic but not boring, Materialists, with a great lead role. A worthy followup on Past lives (from the same director). https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250606-materialists-review

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Caroline de Gruyter in NRC @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social‬ Carte blanche geven aan Israël is een blunder van formaat https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/06/20/carte-blanche-geven-aan-israel-is-een-blunder-van-formaat-a4897688 ls er één moment is waarop Europa pal voor het internationale recht had […]

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Festival season opened: HAPPY!!! Into the music at BKS 2025! See you Monday 😁😅

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AI startup from friends: https://blog.yupp.ai/launch

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Tomorrow: headed to Amsterdam, for PublicSpaces on Friday. Looking forward to talking about the #Fediverse, public services, and the open web.

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Proud of our contribution to the first issue of the newest journal on IR research, IRRJ, founded by editor-in-chief @djoerd as a replacement for IRJ (when it was mistreated by Springer). Graph Embeddings to Empower Entity Retrieval https://irrj.org/article/view/19877 An extension of our […]

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An 8TB corpus of copyright-free text for training AI models. https://github.com/r-three/common-pile/blob/main/paper.pdf I'm glad somebody has finally done this. The "we need to break copyright or AI won't work argument" feels super-dodgy to me and we can just evaluate whether it's true. 1/n

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#DIR2025, the 22nd Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop will take place at Radboud University Nijmegen on 27 October 2025! https://informagus.nl/dir2025/

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Open Search Foundation's @osf Stefan Voigt presenting at the Open Web Index online launch party (you can still join!) https://openwebsearch.eu/open-webindex/ #OWSEU #OWI #OSF

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Open Search Foundation's @osf Stefan Voigt presenting at the Open Web Index online launch party (you can still join!) https://openwebsearch.eu/open-webindex/ #OWSEU #OWI #OSF

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Tja. Wat is er bereikt? Kabinet ambitieus over asiel en bouwen, maar stuit bij mest op grenzen - https://nos.nl/l/2536995 Meest rechtse kabinet ooit, dat wel geloof ik. Nul resultaat. Dat hebben we dan ook maar weer gehad. Voorwaards!

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An exciting scholarship opportunity for women in tech that honours my lovely and talented former colleague Vinita Nahar, who passed away much too early in 2023. @wlvuni.bsky.social www.wlv.ac.uk/apply/openbr...

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Radboud ICIS research with KU Leuven revealed a huge tracking scandal today: https://localmess.github.io/ Meta and Yandex (ab-)used Android's fuzzy rules on using localhost to track your browsing patterns without your consent. Yandex even owns a domain to hide these access patterns. Read more […]

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Google's helpful AI thinks Microsoft still offers access to their FTP server. They don't. It doesn't even respond to ping.

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DuckLake announced today: https://ducklake.select/ An integrated data lake and catalog format "DuckLake delivers advanced data lake features without traditional lakehouse complexity by using Parquet files and your SQL database. It's an open, standalone format from the DuckDB team." Podcast […]

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We've done it 🥳 Finally, there's a canonical paper on the #QGIS project, its history, workings, and challenges: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925001138 Thanks to @timlinux and @mbernasocchi for joining me in trying to tell the QGIS story 💚 #OSGeo #GISChat #GIScience

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@scanner I just saw your asimap project, really nice! Have you actually used it alongside NMH? I was wondering if that would work together sufficiently well, and before trying, thought I'd just ask. Im looking for a good way to usually work with NMH / mh-e but still have access when on the […]

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Genoten bij S10 in Roosje vanavond

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Genoten bij S10 in Roosje vanavond

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Zouden die ministers uit Rutte III nou vandaag echt tevreden lezen dat NL op hun besluit nu echt kinderen uitzet die beter Nederlands spreken dan Nigeriaans? https://childsupporto.nl/algemeen/eerste-uitzetting-3-gewortelde-kinderen-in-5-jaar/ Of overheerst toch een gevoel van schaamte of […]

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Post-quantum crypto finds its use in the real world! An informative article on the recent RHEL 10 release: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/post-quantum-cryptography-red-hat-enterprise-linux-10 #Radboud University has a great track record in the research that led to this step, eg the recent PhD […]

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Keep up the freedom fight, Harvard. WTF USA

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Save the Web? Save the date! June 6, 2025, 10am CEST

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Duidelijke woorden van Femke Halsema in Buitenhof vorige zondag. Wat een geweldige bestuurder is zij toch. Hoe de oorlog in Gaza leeft in Amsterdam en Nederland | Femke Halsema | ... https://youtube.com/watch?v=gT9BXG-AXwI&si=TFWR51taI1Iw338W (En, Geert Wilders, misschien eens een keer […]

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The Boss speaks out firmly. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/15/bruce-springsteen-trump-manchester-rogue-government-siding-with-dictators "The America l’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real and regardless of its faults is a great country with a great people. So we’ll survive […]

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Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects | NBER https://www.nber.org/papers/w33777 Labor market effects of AI chatbots using large surveys over 11 occupations (25,000 workers, 7,000 workplaces): "AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any […]

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Withdrawal of journal submission 'Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery and Product Innovation', with its preprint on ArXiV already widely covered in media and science: https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-record The author claimed that AI tools can significantly […]

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De hoofdaanklager van het internationaal Strafhof kan door Amerikaanse sancties niet meer bij zijn email & bankrekeningen. Het strafhof functioneert nu niet meer. En dit is waar we in Nederland massaal onze (overheids)email en gegevens neerleggen, binnen bereik van Amerikaanse […]

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"The brain-as-computer metaphor was only ever a metaphor, and we always get into trouble when we confuse a metaphor with the thing itself." "To put the point another way: Nobody expects a computer simulation of a hurricane to generate real wind and real rain. In the same way, a computer model […]

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Quick update to 4.2.21 done! #MastoAdmin

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Summaries by LLMs may overstate reported results in scientific work. "Chatbots may overlook uncertainties, limitations, and nuances in original research by omitting qualifiers and oversimplifying text, leading to overgeneralizations, i.e. generalizations that are broader than those in the […]

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"We tested 10 prominent LLMs, including ChatGPT-4o, ChatGPT-4.5, DeepSeek, LLaMA 3.3 70B, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, comparing 4900 LLM-generated summaries to their original scientific texts. Even when explicitly prompted for accuracy, most LLMs produced broader generalizations of scientific results […]

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Hey there! You found me on Bluesky!! Great! I am more active on Mastodon myself: follow me from here as @arjen.idf.social.bsky.brid.gy If you want to interact (I hope so!), please also follow @ap.brid.gy (in Bluesky). Only then I can follow you in Mastodon as well.

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Enjoy the new CMAT! Take A Sexy Picture Of Me & Running / Planning https://open.spotify.com/album/1xqPeoLyajonkSFTtE7HQB?si=zmecw6M1QbGP9wTbSE8Sfg

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Today at CWI, for the symposium: "Truth is in the Eyes of the Machines". https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/cwi-research-semester-programmes/truth-is-in-the-eyes-of-the-machines-symposium/ Series of talks on online misinformation and LLMs. 1/n

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ICML 2025 position paper: [2505.04345] Resist Platform-Controlled AI Agents and Champion User-Centric Agent Advocates https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04345 We should champion agent advocates -- agents that are controlled by users, serve the interests of users, and preserve user autonomy and choice […]

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Today at CWI, for the symposium: "Truth is in the Eyes of the Machines". https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/cwi-research-semester-programmes/truth-is-in-the-eyes-of-the-machines-symposium/ Series of talks on online misinformation and LLMs. 1/n

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We're excited to announce that we've implemented RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures) in #Fedify, complete with our double-knocking mechanism to maintain backward compatibility with the draft cavage version. This implementation includes both signature generation […] [Original post on hollo.social]

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Over de toespraak van Schoof gisteren.

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Coolest thing I saw today Syntax highlighting in pure CSS https://bou.io/syntax-highlighting-in-pure-css.html

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So who's making that browser extension that shows effect of US import tariffs on Amazon products?

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The Noisy Path from Source to Citation: Measuring How Scholars Engage with Past Research https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20581 New preprint demonstrating signal in how works are cited (accurately or not, "citation fidelity"), and so suggesting limitations of merely counting of citation quantity

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Hoera voor de Fediverse, @LisaWesterveld is er weer :-)

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Today: Nout Wellink in Buitenhof. https://youtu.be/Gxl73dHNdvM?si=L5H4SbRpNLEz3THr In this interview, the former president of the Dutch Central Bank is very open about his opinion about the current US government. He characterizes Trump’s tariffs as economic terrorism, explaining in detail why […]

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Holy sh*t. This is a real xkcd, not funny, disturbing, and also one that must be shared https://xkcd.com/3081/

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[Enshittification powered by AI!] Microsoft now no longer says Edge is a faster or more secure browser… no… it is powered by GPT-4! An LLM rendering my webpage? No thanks…

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